Skullcandy Push truly wireless earbuds announced

Skullcandy has announced Push, the company's first truly wireless earbuds with Secure FitFin Gels, Activate Assistant and promises 6 hours of battery life, and additional 6 hours of battery life with the bundled case. The innovative form factor eliminates signal loss and easily control each earbud, says the company. It has accessible button on each earbud and lets you Triple press either button to have your assistant help with sending a message, setting a reminder, and much more. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_Sw3rssK_w You can tap either button to answer and end a call. Press the left earbud for two seconds to reject a call or put one on hold and turn up the volume with right button and left button to turn it down. Highlights of Skullcandy Push Activate Assistant to Quickly access your device's built-in assistant using either earbud Fitfins keep your buds secure in your ear, so they don't fall out 6 hrs of music from fully charged buds and 6 hrs from the charging case gives you a total 12 hrs of playback. The Skullcandy Push is priced at $129.99 (Rs. 9,360 approx.) and is available in the US.

Google Year in Search 2018: FIFA World cup 2018, Robot 2.0, Kiki Challenge top trending in India

Following the trend, it set, Google is back with 'Year in Search' for 2018. The quick recap highlights all the user’s interests based on the searches made by the users in India on Google and also covers the major events happened in the last 12-month period.  This year in the top 10 overall list, sporting events and entertainment are the two topics that dominated search queries. Questions around FIFA topping those around the IPL events. Searches for children’s shows including Baal Veer and Motu Patlu also made it to the list. There were queries relating to Robot 2.0. There were three Hollywood movies that made it to this list, all of which happen to be Marvel blockbusters: Avengers: Infinity War, Black Panther, and Deadpool 2. On the music front, the songs that ruled the roost included Neha Kakkar’s Dilbar Dilbar, Arijit Singh’s Tera Fitoor and others, where the lone English entrant was the evergreen Latin hit Despacito. Among the personalities that took prominence in Search this year, topping the list is Priya Prakash Varrier, followed by Priyanka Chopra's spouse, Nick Jonas. Among the most interesting searches were those centered around ‘How to..’, and ‘What is…’, which saw a wide variety of asks spanning ‘What is the ...

Tambo TA-40 Android Oreo (Go edition) phone with 5.45-inch 18:9 display, fingerprint sensor launched in India for Rs. 5999

Tambo has launched the TA-40 Android Oreo (Go Edition) smartphone in India. It has a 5.45-inch  18:9 aspect ratio display, is powered by a quad-core SoC with 1GB of RAM, has a 5-megapixel front and rear cameras with LED flash, face unlock, rear-mounted fingerprint sensor and a 2400mAh battery. Tambo TA-40 specifications 5.45-inch 18:9 aspect ratio display 1.3GHz quad-core processor 1GB RAM, 8GB internal memory, expandable memory up to 64GB with microSD Dual SIM Android 8.1 (Oreo Go Edition) 5MP rear camera with LED Flash 5MP front-facing camera with LED flash 3.5mm audio jack, FM Radio Fingerprint sensor, face unlock 4G VoLTE, WiFi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.2, GPS 2400mAh battery The Tambo TA-40 comes in Blue and Red colors, is priced at Rs. 5999 and will be available from offline stores. Commenting on the launch, Sudhir Kumar, Chief Executive Officer, Agaston Mobile Pvt. Ltd. said: Tambo TA-40 is a powerful budget smartphone designed keeping in mind the Indian customers’preferences. We have received a good response for the Tambo’s previously launched Superphones TA-3 and TA-4 that are already available in the market. We have seen a great demand for budget smartphones with good camera quality and have specifically designed the phone with advanced camera features with the ...

Portronics MUFFS G wireless headphones launched for Rs. 1999

Portronics Digital has launched the MUFFS G - Bluetooth 4.2 stereo headphones with an Aux-in option. It comes with soft cushioned ear-cups and headband. The Muffs G offers extra comfort and noise cancellation feature and the rugged foldable design ensures durability. It comes with 40mm inbuilt drivers and offers solid bass effect and amazing treble with up to 10 meters of range. It has a frequency of 20 - 20,000Hz. The company claims it can offer 12 hours of music experience with just 2 hours of charge. The ultra-light ear cups fold inside, making it easy to carry the headphone without being concerned of any wear and tear in the bag. The Portronics Digital MUFFS G - Bluetooth 4.2 stereo headphones will be available in Grey color from Amazon.in, Flipkart and other online and offline stores priced at Rs. 1,999 (MRP), however you can get it for as low as Rs. 1,599.

Instagram said to be testing ‘Creator Accounts’ with DM Filters, growth insights and much more

Instagram is said to be testing new creator-specific accounts that will give users specialized tools. The "creator account" is meant for the traditional talent, digital influencers, and artists on the platform. These tools include growth insights such as data around follows and unfollows; direct messaging tools that allow users to filter notes from. The new features are being tested with a small beta group before they roll out to the wider community next year. Ashley Yuki, an Instagram product manager said that " creators are an important part of our community. We want to make sure that Instagram is the best place, and the easiest place, to build fan communities and also build personal brands." Until the introduction of these creator accounts, these creators didn't have a customized Instagram experience. Now the inclusion of such features aims to create the space that is tailored where it can now start to specialize the experience for the needs of creators. The new growth insights will give creators weekly and daily data around how their follower count has changed. The feature, which works across the feed, Stories, and IGTV, will also show creators what content they created so that they can understand what may have caused the spike in ...

Worldwide smartphone shipments expected to further decline by 3% in 2018, will return to growth in 2019: IDC

According to IDC, worldwide smartphone shipments are expected to decline by 3% in 2018 before returning to low single-digit growth in 2019 and through 2022. Despite the on-going US-China trade war, IDC says that it believes that continued developments from emerging markets, combined with potential around 5G and new product form factors, will bring the smartphone market back to positive growth. Smartphone shipments are expected to drop to 1.42 billion units in 2018, down from 1.47 billion in 2017. The YoY growth in shipments will be around 2.6% in 2019. The smartphone shipments are forecast to reach 1.57 billion units in 2022. The China market, which represented 30% of total smartphone shipments in 2017, is finally showing signs of recovery. The U.S. is also forecast to return to positive growth in 2019 after experiencing a decline in 2018. The slow revival of China was one of the reasons for low growth in Q3 2018 and this slowdown will persist into Q1 2019 as the market is expected to drop by 3% in Q4 2018. Furthermore, the recently lifted U.S. ban on ZTE had an impact on shipments in Q3 2018 and created a sizable gap that is yet to be filled heading into ...

Google Photos no longer offers unlimited storage for unsupported videos

Google, until now allowed free photo and videos to be uploaded to Photos services as long as they are compressed. However, the company is changing it now, as of December 6th, videos in unsupported formats are no longer included in the free storage.  In the Google support site, the company added the following note: "videos uploaded after December 6, 2018, take up storage space." Google Photos supports almost any video format which includes .mpg, .mod, .mmv, .tod, .wmv, .asf, .avi, .divx, .mov, .m4v, .3gp, .3g2, .mp4, .m2t, .m2ts, .mts, and .mkv files. Since it is on the unsupported video page, your files are likely still free. Rare video formats like VOB or RAW video from a high-end camera will take up storage space going forward. It is also likely that Photos users are tinkering with the file containers to make large, non-video files look like videos. Something of this kind that might have counted as free storage in the past but no more. Source

Android Trojan said to be stealing money from PayPal accounts even with 2FA enabled

A new report from security researchers suggests a new trojan preying on Android users. It is first detected by ESET in November 2018, the malware combines the capabilities of a remotely controlled banking Trojan with a novel misuse of Android Accessibility services, to target users of the official PayPal app. Once it is launched, the malicious app terminates without offering any functionality and hides its icon. The malware’s first function is stealing money from its victims; PayPal account holders. However, it requires the activation of a malicious Accessibility service. This request is presented to the user as being from the innocuous-sounding “Enable statistics” service. If the official PayPal app is installed on the compromised device, the malware displays a notification alert prompting the user to launch it. Once the user opens the PayPal app and logs in, the malicious accessibility service becomes active and mimics the user’s clicks to send money to the attacker’s PayPal address. The whole process takes about 5 seconds, and for an unsuspecting user, there is no feasible way to intervene in time. Since the malware does not rely on stealing PayPal login credentials, it instead waits for users to log into the official PayPal app themselves, it also bypasses PayPal’s two-factor authentication (2FA). The ...

LG Gram 17 with 8th gen Intel core processor, 16GB RAM, fingerprint reader and LG Gram 14 2-in-1 convertible announced

LG has announced new ultra-light gram laptop line-up and will showcase the same at CES 2019. This new laptop in the gram series includes the new LG gram 17 (model 17Z990) and 14-inch LG gram 2-in-1 which conveniently folds to transform from laptop to tablet. The LG gram 17 sports a 17-inch high-resolution WQXGA (2560 x 1600 resolution) 16:10 ratio display. It weighs 1,340 grams and features a highly efficient 72W battery that can last up to 19.5 hours on a single charge. The laptop complies with U.S. military MIL-STD-810G durability including shock, dust and extreme temperatures. It is powered by the 8th Generation Intel Core processor and up to 16GB of DDR4 memory, and comes with 256GB solid-state drive (SSD) and has an extra slot for an additional SSD. It also includes Thunderbolt 3 port means users can charge devices, transfer files and display content via a single port. Additionally, it has support for DTS Headphone X surround sound and a fingerprint sensor. Up next is the LG Gram 2-in-1 convertible boasts a distinctive form factor with a 14-inch touchscreen display with Corning Gorilla Glass 5. It also meets the U.S. military MIL-STD-810G standard for durability. The 2-in-1 comes with Wacom AES 2.0 Pen with 4,096 pressure ...

Huawei P Smart 2019 with 6.21-inch FHD+ FullView display, Kirin 710, AI dual rear cameras, Android 9.0 Pie listed online

After a leak, Huawei P Smart (2019) a mid-range smartphone has been listed by a French retailer revealing complete specifications and images. It has a 6.21-inch Full HD+ waterdrop notch display with 19:5:9 aspect ratio and over 90% screen-to-body ratio, is powered by Kirin 710 SoC with 3GB RAM, support for GPU Turbo 2.0 and runs Android 9.0 (Pie) with EMUI 9.0 on top. It has a 13-megapixel rear camera with f/1.8 aperture along with a secondary 2-megapixel camera for AI portraits and AI scene detection. It also comes with a 8-megapixel front camera with AI selfies, has a glass back with gradiant finish in some models, rear-mounted fingerprint sensor and packs a 3400mAh battery. Huawei P Smart (2019) specifications 6.21-inch (2340 x 1080 pixels) Full HD+ 19:5:9 2.5D curved glass display Octa-Core Kirin 710 12nm (4 x 2.2GHz  Cortex-A73 +4 x 1.7GHz Cortex-A53) with ARM Mali-G51 MP4 GPU 3GB RAM, 64GB storage, expandable memory up to 512GB with microSD Android 9.0 (Pie) with EMUI 9.0 Hybrid Dual SIM (nano + nano / microSD) 13MP rear camera with f/1.8 aperture, LED flash, secondary 2MP rear camera 8MP front-facing camera Dimensions: 155.2×73.4×8mm; Weight: 160g Fingerprint sensor Dual 4G VoLTE, Wi-Fi 802.11 ac (2.4GHz + 5GHz), Bluetooth 4.2 ...